Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Troy Davis Project

Dates: April 8 – May 1, 2016

Venue: Synchronicity Theatre | 1545 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309

Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 5pm

Tickets: $25-28 Adults | $20-23 Seniors & Students

World Premiere. In 2011, Troy Davis was executed for killing a white police officer – setting off a tinderbox throughout the Southeast and beyond. In this gripping new play, Atlanta writer Lee Nowell re-ignites this critical conversation through the lives of her characters. Burned-out activist Alison finds fresh purpose in the effort to free Troy Davis, to the exasperation of her corporate lawyer husband. Civil Rights Movement veteran Mary and her college-aged grandson Curtis clash on their beliefs about capital punishment in light of a dark trauma in their past. Commissioned and developed by Synchronicity, this powerful world premiere presents a balanced investigation of our divergent and deeply-held beliefs on race, justice and the death penalty. The two acts are played in alternating order each night.

Community Partners: Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company, The Ben Marion Institute, Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Emory’s Ethics and the Arts program.

Written by Lee Nowell. Directed by Rachel May